Cultural-Historical Special Interest
group of AERAThe Cultural-Historical Research special interest group focuses on mediated
action, history, and the role of human agency and activity theory in the
tradition of Vygotsky, Luria, Leontev, Bakhtin, Mead, and many others (see and
decide yourself who we are).

Center for Activity Theory
and Developmental Work Research - Helsinki
The methodology of
developmental work research (DWR) relies on interventions aimed at helping
practitioners analyze and redesign their activity systems. Our theoretical
framework is cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) in which the idea of
expansive learning is of central importance.

International Society for Cultural and Activity
Research (ISCAR)ISCAR is a newly formed organization that grew out of two, related academic
societies. The first was ISCRAT, the International Society for Cultural Research
and Activity theory. The second was the Society for Sociocultural Research.
During the past 20 years, several conferences and seminars on themes central
to activity theory and sociocultural approaches held in the Nordic countries,
Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Brazil. The two societies agreed to join
together in 2002 and will hold the first ISCAR conference in Seville, Spain,
in September, 2005.

5th D
ClearinghouseThe Fifth Dimension is an international educational
program of after-school activities for children ages 6-13, promoting cognitive
and social development. The activity approach allows children to participate in
academic work alongside more capable peers and adults (most often college
undergraduates) where they use, practice, and master basic skills as means to
gaining control over, and responsibility for, their own actions. Children's
participation is voluntary and about most of the activities include computer
games and educational software

The Vygotsky
ProjectA comprehensive site about Vygotsky and his ideas. The site
has six major sections; Vygotsky's own words, family and friends, analysis of
Vygotsky's ideas, Vygotsky compared to others, Vygotsky in practice, and
Vygotskian concepts.

Sociocultural
TheoryA comprehensive set of links about Vygotsky and Socio-Cultural
Theory from the University of Colorado School of Education. The site also
includes links to other theories and Vygotsky's relationship to them (e.g.
Semiotics, Cognitive Psychology).

Diversity and Identity

International Laboratory
VEGAContent includes The Network on the Ethnological Monitoring and
Early Warning of Conflicts, and the Conflict Research Center.

GenTechGenTech
is an applied research project whose mandate is to create conditions within
which girls and women have maximum access to, and confidence in, a wide range of
new information technologies.

Deconstructing
"Difference" and the Difference This Makes to Education
Nicholas C. Burbules
The tension between sameness and diversity has been an ongoing feature of modern
educational theory and practice, especially in the United States. We seem
fundamentally torn between, on the one hand, a desire to use education to make
people more alike (whether this is in regards to a "melting pot" of
citizenship values and beliefs; the essential texts of "cultural
literacy"; the factual knowledge and skills that can be measured by
standardized tests; or the establishment of uniform national standards across
the curriculum) and, on the other hand, a desire to serve the different learning
styles and needs, the different cultural orientations, and the different
aspirations toward work and living represented by the diverse population of
students in public schools.

Women and
Girls Last: Females and the InternetAuthor: Janet Morahan-Martin
The Internet has been dominated by males since its inception. Although use of
the Internet by females has increased dramatically in the last few years, women
and girls worldwide still use the Internet less and in different ways than
males. Low Internet use by females not only gives them less access to
information and services available online, but also can have negative economic
and educational consequences. This paper discusses barriers to greater female
use of the Internet: the Internet as new technology, the masculine Internet
culture, and gendered communication styles online.

Dialoguing
Across Differences: Three Hidden BarriersJames W. Garrison Stephanie L. KimballElizabeth Ellsworth has provided an important critique of critical pedagogy
that problematizes such popular liberal principles as rationality, democracy,
dialogue, justice, equality, and empowerment. Ellsworth’s point is that these
liberal principles “are repressive myths that perpetuate relations of
domination.”

Rethinking
SchoolsRethinking School is an urban educational journal that is
published four times a year. Their focus is on educational reform with a strong
focus on equity and social justice issues. Brazilian educator Paulo Freire writes that teachers should
attempt to "live part of their dreams within their educational space."
Rethinking Schools believes that classrooms can be places of hope, where
students and teachers gain glimpses of the kind of society we could live in and
where students learn the academic and critical skills needed to make that vision
a reality.

Education

American Educational Research
AssociationThe American Educational Research Association is
concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly
inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical
application of research results.

Culture, Learning, and Development
in Education Formed in 1993, SCRG (housed within the College of
Education of Michigan State University) is composed of faculty and graduate
researchers in the social sciences and education. The culturally-diverse members
bring a shared set of theoretical, methodological, and practical concerns to
studying relations between culture, education, and human
learning/development.

Research in the Teaching of
EnglishThis vision of what "research in the teaching of English"
means is broad and inclusive. Committed to publishing manuscripts that maintain
RTE's tradition of excellence while reflecting the diversity of sites,
methodological perspectives, and ontological orientations that have newly
enriched literacy studies in recent years.

NetworksA
new on-line journal focused on teacher research. This journal offers teachers
working in classrooms from pre-school to university a place to share their
findings and learn from each other.

Gestalt Psychology

Society
for Gestalt TheorySite of the international "Society for Gestalt
Theory and its Applications," founded in 1978 to further the development and
application of the Gestalt theory of the so-called "Berlin School" (Wertheimer,
Koffka, Koehler, Lewin) in various fields of science, research and practice.

Linguistics and Semiotics

Charles S. Peirce
StudiesThis site provides links to five of Peirce's most important
papers. Here, Peirce puts himself in the place of Aristotle and Kant and carves
out his list of phenomenal categories. These categories gird all of Peirce's
thought, from his logic to his cosmology. Like Kant, he believed these
categories describe those aspects of reality necessary for us to be able to
reconcile discrete sensory data into the unity of consciousness which we
experience.

The
Bahktin CenterThe Bakhtin Centre was founded in October 1994. Its
purpose is to promote multi- and inter-disciplinary research on the work of the
Russian philosopher and theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle, and on
related areas of cultural, critical, linguistic and literary theory.

The Narrative
Psychology HomepageThis site focuses upon narrative perspectives in
psychology and allied disciplines and provides an interdisciplinary guide to
bibliographical and Internet resources concerned with "the storied nature of
human conduct" (Sarbin, 1986).

Philosophical Dialectics

Psychology and
MarxismThe site explores the relationship between Marxism and
Psychology. Its central focus is the Cultural-Historical school of Vygotsky.

The Marxist Internet
ArchiveA comprehensive site devoted to Marxism in general. In
addition to Marx/Engels, they have major collections on Lenin, Trotsky, and
Women.

Pragmatism

The Center for Dewey StudiesThe Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale was established in 1961 as the "Dewey Project." In the course of
collecting and editing Dewey's works, the Center amassed a wealth of source
materials for the study of America's quintessential philosopher-educator, John
Dewey. John
Dewey:Democracy and EducationAnonline version of Dewey's
(1916) book Democracy and Education made possible by the Institute for Learning Technologies at
Columbia University.

George's
Page: The Works of George Herbert MeadGeorge's Page is a repository
for the publications of George Herbert Mead. The site also provides access to
related publications by other writers, including source documents referenced by
Mead, some biographical and historical notes, and commentaries on Mead's
work.

Social Constructionism

Contemporary Issues in
Early ChildhoodA new online international research journal with
articles in pdf format. It provides a forum for researchers and professionals
who are exploring new and alternative perspectives in their work with young
children (from birth to eight years of age) and their families. The journal aims
to present opportunities for scholars to highlight the ways in which the
boundaries of early childhood studies and practice are expanding, and for
readers to participate in the discussion of emerging issues, contradictions and
possibilities.
Technology

GenTechGenTech
is an applied research project whose mandate is to create conditions within
which girls and women have maximum access to, and confidence in, a wide range of
new information technologies.

The
Neo-Luddite ReactionA web site of links about Luddism by the School
of Education at the University of Colorado at Denver. The term Luddite has been
resurrected from a previous era to describe one who distrusts or fears the
inevitable changes brought about by new technology. The original Luddite revolt
occurred in 1811, an action against the English Textile factories that displaced
craftsmen in favor of machines. Today's Luddites continue to raise moral and
ethical arguments against the excesses of modern technology to the extent that
it threatens our essential humanity.

To suggest a related Web site, please e-mail the URL address and a description
of the site to Nate at vygotsky@home.com